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Originally Posted by jfman

Our constitution is based on a premise that no Parliament can bind a future Parliament.

No Government pamphlet can ever change that. If Cameron wanted to deliver that he should have triggered A50 immediately and hung around to deliver it as quickly as possible. Otherwise that piece of paper is no more legally binding than hopes and aspirations.

Why are you going down this nugatory line? Just for the sake of being argumentative? It's more than in the realms of the bleedin' obvious that the successor PM to Cameron would have to fulfil the pamphlet commitment or face the fury of 17.4 million voters. She got close by delaying the A50 process.

The fact is that unless the law changes, we are leaving the EU on 29-Mar-19. A commitment that needs to be kept.

And another thing. You go on about opinions changing. Are you sure? The people can see that the EU is as federalist as ever; the French are as beastly as ever in blackmailing us over fishing rights; the Euro is still in danger of collapse due to the Italian economy; the perfidious Irish government has backed down over a hard border if there is no deal (so what was the Backstop all about?). The youngest voters haven't a clue about any of this - see their instinctive support for Corbyn for details. I would support bringing the franchise back up to 21, btw - something for you to latch onto, no doubt.

Jeez - you Remainers.



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Originally Posted by jfman

Our constitution is based on a premise that no Parliament can bind a future Parliament.

No Government pamphlet can ever change that. If Cameron wanted to deliver that he should have triggered A50 immediately and hung around to deliver it as quickly as possible. Otherwise that piece of paper is no more legally binding than hopes and aspirations.

I need to take you up somewhat on that in relation to Article 50. This was issued by TM on 29-March-2017, in the then current Parliament of which Cameron had been the previous PM.

So the issue of one parliament binding another did not arise.